The Rockefeller Gift to Great Britain

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XVI, Issue 4, 1 October 1923, Page 168

The Rockefeller Gift to Great Britain

The great additions to University College and University College Hospital, of London, England, made possible through the munificence of John D. Rockefeller were inaugurated on May 31, with picturesque ceremony, by the King and Queen. The foundation-stones of +he new Maternity Hospital and the Nurses* Home were formally laid, and the King declared the new anatomy building opened. The Maternity Hospital and Nurses ; Home will face each other across the street, and advantage of this was taken to erect a marquee over that thoroughfare and to turn it into a local court. The stones to be laid stood on either side, and when the stands were filled, largely with physicians m scarlet gowns and nurses m gray uniforms and spotless caps and aprons, the choir of St. Pancras Church filed

m, followed by the band of the Grenadiers m all their glory of gold and scarlet. In his speech, King George made special reference to the "magnificent generosity" of the gift of £1,200,000 to University College m a single gift from a single benefactor, and spoke of the significance it gained m coming from an American citizen to the people of Great Britain and the British Empire. On the Maternity Hospital all passersby will read : "Built by the generosity of the Rockefeller Foundation, U.S.A. " The record on the Nurses' Home will be: "Gift of the Rockefeller Foundation, U.S.A. " —From "The Public Health Nurse. "